Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from United Kingdom and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ultra Naté to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Mars,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Erykah Badu,
the Germs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Slick Rick,
The Walker Brothers,
X-Ray Spex,
Gang Starr,
Circle Jerks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gun Club,
The Searchers,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
Fear,
Traffic Nightmare,
cv313,
Reuben Wilson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Brand Nubian,
Alton Ellis,
Chrome,
Joensuu 1685,
The Divine Comedy,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Surgeon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suburban Knight,
Black Flag,
Bob Dylan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moleskins,
The Cure,
Radiopuhelimet,
Donald Byrd,
Max Romeo,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Birthday Party,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Human League,
Delta 5,
The Offenders,
Khruangbin,
Absolute Body Control,
Siglo XX,
Yellowson,
Black Bananas,
Mantronix,
The Motions,
Duran Duran,
Animal Collective,
Public Enemy,
The Vogues,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.